What It Looks Like, How It Flies
poems by Steve Langan / images by Karen Kunc
What It Looks Like, How It Flies - deluxe copies
10 7/8 x 6 7/8 x 3/8 inches. 28 pp. Edition of 30 copies.
ISBN: 978-0-9904562-0-9
The Fine Version is OUT OF PRINT
What It Looks Like, How It Flies - fine copies
11 x 7 x 1/4 inches. 28 pp. Edition of 55 copies.
ISBN: 978-0-9904562-1-6
$125.00
What It Looks Like, How It Flies - trade copies
9 5/8 x 6 3/8 x 5/32 inches. 28 pp. Edition of 250 copies
ISBN 978-0-9904562-2-3
An on-line review drom D. S. Atkinson:
5.0 out of 5 stars The book is just as beautiful as the poetry inside.
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2016: I don't usually get a lot of craft books, but I had to get this one. The book is just as beautiful as the poetry inside. Langan is definitely on his A game in this one, such a unique poetic voice full of strangeness, strength, musicality, and surprises. I'm always happy picking up Langan's work, but I was especially happy I picked this one up. * * * * *
What It Looks Like, How It Flies, a book of 16 poems written by Omaha poet Steve Langan, is the inaugural publication of Gibraltar Editions, a literary fine press publishing company based in Omaha.
Langan is the author of the previous collections Freezing, Notes on Exile and Other Poems, and
Meet Me at the Happy Bar.
He serves on the teaching and residency faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha MFA in Writing program and is founder and director of the Seven Doctors Project, a Nebraska Writers Collective program currently based at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. His poems have appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, Chicago Review, Double Take, and Colorado Review.
The book was hand set and printed by Denise Brady from Poliphilus, Blado, and American Uncial types. Eighty-five copies printed on Gutenberg, a German mouldmade paper, feature three two-color woodcuts by Karen Kunc printed from her blocks. Jace Graf of Cloverleaf Studio in Austin, Texas, has bound 30 deluxe copies in vellum and cloth, and Brady has sewn the remaining 55 fine copies in a handmade flax paper from Cave Paper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. An additional 250 trade copies were printed without woodcuts on Mohawk Superfine and pasted into Speckletone cover stock. Each copy is hand numbered.
Deluxe copies (above) with woodcuts by Karen Kunc, printed on Gutenberg, and bound by Jace Graf in vellum and cloth with endsheets of Canson Mi Teintes.
10 7/8 x 6 7/8 x 3/8 inches. 28 pp. Edition of 30 copies.
ISBN: 978-0-9904562-0-9
$350 each (available March 7, 2015)
Fine copies (above) with woodcuts by Karen Kunc, printed on Gutenberg and sewn into Cave Paper covers by Denise Brady.
11 x 7 x 1/4 inches. 28 pp. Edition of 55 copies.
ISBN: 978-0-9904562-1-6
$125 each (available March 7, 2015)
Trade copies (above) printed without woodcuts on Mowhawk Superfine, sewn and pasted into Speckleton Covers by Denise Brady.
9 5/8 x 6 3/8 x 5/32 inches. 28 pp. Edition of 250 copies
ISBN 978-0-9904562-2-3
$10 each (discounted in 2020)
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